From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76B21606A31C for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key, unprotected) header.d=xenproject.org header.i=@xenproject.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=20200302mail header.b=eZv/fPZh Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.1454605.1668157 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1xIqaz-00086k-BC; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:21 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 1454605.1668157; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:21 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1xIqaz-00086d-8N; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:21 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 1454605; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:20 +0000 Received: from mail.xenproject.org ([104.130.215.37]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1xIqay-00086X-Cc for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:20 +0000 Received: from xenbits.xenproject.org ([104.239.192.120]) by mail.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1xIqay-00000001zTf-1i4a; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:20 +0000 Received: from 224.pool85-54-217.dynamic.orange.es ([85.54.217.224] helo=localhost) by xenbits.xenproject.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1xIqay-0000000C5Ml-0BJ8; Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:20 +0000 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=xenproject.org; s=20200302mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=gfNxw1p1gN5aBybISNACLPtMDf5a24eOGTjf/2OENws=; b=eZv/fPZhuZkLkRdIJ3WH4AwjOY DFUPg9FCpvmdq2T3uPBmLlD1qP1e2dbNXrJdfqmupWMbYVW3Wa/WnrfNRo0+3zAatXzorV1pXEkkW TezA69lVVwkun3c/2Q3G+EihQf4OZ4tvZzoxy5/yr5/L1GgVCtEvRVFbDEZazqLt/qew=; Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:52:10 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= To: Andrew Cooper Cc: Xen-devel , Jan Beulich , Teddy Astie Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/shstk: Fix possible crash while enabling Shadow Stacks Message-ID: References: <20261019155959.883789-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> X-Archived-By: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20261019155959.883789-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 04:59:59PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Between writing MSR_S_CET.SHSTK_EN and establishing SSP using RSTORSSP or > SETSSBSY, there must not be any CALL or RET instructions. > > Building Xen with -fno-early-inlining causes wrmsr() to become out-of-line, > and thus suffers #DF during boot. > > Make the MSR and shstk helpers always_inline. They ought to have been this > way all along. > > Reported-by: Roger Pau Monné > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné Originally this was reported by Stefano, so it should likely have his reported-by tag also. Thanks, Roger.